Malvinella
No picture of Malvinella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Malvinella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalmoniidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Calmoniidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Malvinella on record, most of them in the Devonian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrences- Devonian100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Malvinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Malvinella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Malvinella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Acastoides2 sites
- Brachiopoda2 sites
- Conulariida2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Metacryphaeus2 sites
- Schizostylus2 sites
- Viaphacops salteri2 sites
- Belenopyge balliviani1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Blastoidea1 site
- Bouleia1 site
- Calmonia1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Metacryphaeus tuberculatus1 site
- Odontochile1 site
- Orthocerida1 site
- Otarion1 site
- Phacopina1 site
- Platyceras1 site
- Pleurodictyum1 site
- Receptaculites1 site
- Vogesina lacunafera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Malvinella, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Malvinella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Malvinella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Malvinella was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCalmoniidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wolart 1968